Comments on: Best Fruitcake Ever

By: raina_c

raina_c — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:45:15 +0000

Nice gimmick, but instead of wasting $10 on this fruitcake why don't I just send the family member $10 so they can get something they do like.

By: Rocky Rook

Rocky Rook — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:55:51 +0000

I could go for the fruitcake TwoDragons describes. I've always hated the weird fruitcake my grandma made.

By: ted

ted — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:38:37 +0000

My mom makes nice muffin-shaped fruitcakes. They're okay.

By: TwoDragons

TwoDragons — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:59:39 +0000

A good homemade fruitcake is a real treat, especially with the right balance of juicy fruits and nuts and batter, with a hint of rum. The nasty dry crap you get in the store is what gives the confection a bad name.

The chairman of the food pantry I volunteer for does an incredible fruitcake with huge chunks of pecans and fresh fruit and orange slice candy in it. You don't so much cut slices of it as spoon gobs of it onto your plate, because it's soaked with orange juice. I drool just remembering it! He does it without alcohol, but I bet a splash of Cointreau would elevate it to penultimate perfection.

--TwoDragons

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:08:24 +0000

Fruit cake makes me ill. The dry fruit and the wonky taste just puts me off.

By: The Other Parker

The Other Parker — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:05:43 +0000

I haven't had a fruitcake since I was a kid. My grandmother used to give them to the family for gifts. I liked them a lot, though these weren't alcoholic. I didn't even know that people made them with rum until I read this post... I should try that now that I'm all grown up! But yeah, I never could figure out why people seem to think such a delicious food is so awful. Oh well -- more for me!

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:20:53 +0000

I don't normally go around trying fruit cake, especially now that I am an adult and no one can make me, but when I was forced to "have a taste", I always preferred the boozier ones, though I never liked them either. But I am one of those people that doesn't like fruit in dessert unless it's something really special.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:39:53 +0000

As my dad would say, "If you don't like it, you don't know what's good for you'."

The ultra-processed bricks they sell in supermarkets are pretty lame, but good fruitcake is plenty tasty.

We buy my dad one every year from the monks (yeah, real monks) at The Abbey of the Genessee in Western NY (plug: http://www.geneseeabbey.org/bread-store2.html). Awful yummy good.

By: Woogie

Woogie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:20:49 +0000

I really don't understand this hatred toward fruitcake. Perhaps people who hate it have only had really shitty ones. My mother-in-law makes the most AWESOME fruitcake and I look forward to it every year.

By: liphttam1

liphttam1 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:13:53 +0000

StacyJ I loved that Edd, ed n eddy refrence. I loved that show. Can't believe its gone!!

By: Crispy75

Crispy75 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:02:57 +0000

You're all eating the wrong sort of fruitcake! What exactly are they doing wrong in AMerica?

By: Courageous Grace

Courageous Grace — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:24:14 +0000

One thing that gave fruitcake a bad name is people would make it with citrus peel. That gives it a tart, sour taste.

Good fruitcake is sweet, and very rummy. My mother and grandmother used to make the absolute best, but they had to start it in September to have it ready by Christmas.

By: LisaL

LisaL — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:22:06 +0000

UGH I hate fruitcake. I've tryed it on several different occassions and hated it every single time.

By: Paul in Boca

Paul in Boca — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:01:31 +0000

that guy sounds like John Madden

By: edselpdx

edselpdx — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:27:04 +0000

Fruitcake is the poinsettia of the food world--everyone gives them, nobody really likes them.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:03:39 +0000

How good a fruitcake is depends on how much Southern Comfort or Bourbon is in the recipe. Of course, if you are making fruitcake and have to keep checking the alcohol for quality, the fruitcake will probably taste bad, but by then who cares?

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:37:06 +0000

That is awesome and fun! I am blogging about it right now!

By: stacyj

stacyj — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:33:45 +0000

I love fruitcake, that stuff is delicious and all too unfairly maligned. I brought one in for a social function the other day and only one other person besides me touched it - most everyone else admitted they had no idea what one tasted like, but were pretty sure they wouldn't like it ... fools! They -do- offer a lot of opportunity for silliness, though, and that inflatable fruitcake is a great example =) Another bit of fruitcake humor that always makes me grin comes from this cartoon ("Ed, Edd n Eddy") where one of the characters once says something about how his family "parades" their "ancestral fruitcake" around every Christmas ... I keep trying to get that tradition established in my own family but nobody ever seems to go for it, alas!

By: gtron

gtron — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:15:18 +0000

i think the reason that people dislike REAL fruitcake is because they are introduced to it as children, and it is usually booze-soaked... most kids can't put the dried fruit and rum flavors together - at least that's my excuse - in my locale, there is lots of British Isles descendants, and it's an Xmas fave... as an adult i was re-introduced to it and can say that there are some that ROCK, and others that SUCK - it's up to the ingredients and the baker, like everything else - don't knock it til you've tried a real one

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:14:49 +0000

LOL! That's hilarious! I imagine someone will send that to me, as I hate fruit cake and no one gets why. They make a great door stop.

By: Edward

Edward — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:12:34 +0000

Archie McPhee has the best silly stuff on the planet. Their April Fools specials are not to be missed.